Editing Sanskrit (section)

=== Literature and arts ===
{{See also|List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Sanskrit}}
More than 3,000 Sanskrit works have been composed since India's independence in 1947.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Prajapati |first1=Manibhai |title=Post-independence Sanskrit literature: a critical survey |date=2005 |publisher=Standard publishers India |location=New Delhi |edition=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jtZjAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> Much of this work has been judged of high quality, in comparison to both classical Sanskrit literature and modern literature in other Indian languages.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ranganath |first1=S. |title=Modern Sanskrit Writings in Karnataka |year=2009 |edition=1st |page=7 |publisher=Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-81-86111-21-5 |url=http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/digitalbook/m/mswk.pdf |access-date=28 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501072906/http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/DigitalBook/M/Mswk.pdf |archive-date=1 May 2012 |quote=Contrary to popular belief, there is an astonishing quality of creative upsurge of writing in Sanskrit today. Modern Sanskrit writing is qualitatively of such high order that it can easily be treated on par with the best of Classical Sanskrit literature, It can also easily compete with the writings in other Indian languages.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Adhunika Sanskrit Sahitya Pustakalaya |publisher=Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan |url=http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/ASSP/Index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113021104/http://www.sanskrit.nic.in/ASSP/INDEX.html |access-date=28 October 2014 |archive-date=13 January 2013 |quote=The latter half of the nineteenth century marks the beginning of a new era in Sanskrit literature. Many of the modern Sanskrit writings are qualitatively of such high order that they can easily be treated at par with the best of classical Sanskrit works, and they can also be judged in contrast to the contemporary literature in other languages.}}</ref> In 2009, [[Satya Vrat Shastri]] became the first Sanskrit author to win the [[Jnanpith Award]], India's highest literary award.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Indian Express|title=Sanskrit's first Jnanpith winner is a 'poet by instinct'|date=14 January 2009|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/sanskrits-first-jnanpith-winner-is-a-poet-by-instinct/410480/0|access-date=26 October 2014|archive-date=7 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090607005229/http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sanskrits-first-jnanpith-winner-is-a-poet-by-instinct/410480/0|url-status=live}}</ref>

Sanskrit is used extensively in the [[Carnatic music|Carnatic]] and [[Hindustani classical music|Hindustani]] branches of classical music. [[Kirtan]]as, [[bhajan]]s, [[stotra]]s, and [[shloka]]s of Sanskrit are popular throughout India. The [[Samaveda]] uses musical notations in several of its recessions.<ref name="brit samveda">{{cite web |title=Samveda |url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/624383/Veda#ref942524 |access-date=5 May 2015 |archive-date=29 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429181056/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/624383/Veda#ref942524 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In [[Mainland China]], musicians such as [[Sa Dingding]] have written [[popular music|pop songs]] in Sanskrit.<ref>{{cite web |title=Awards for World Music 2008 |work=[[BBC Radio 3]] |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/a4wm2008/2008_sa_ding_ding.shtml |access-date=24 March 2011 |archive-date=24 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424011748/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic/a4wm2008/2008_sa_ding_ding.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>

Numerous loan Sanskrit words are found in other major Asian languages. For example, [[List of loanwords in Tagalog#Sanskrit|Filipino]],<ref>{{cite book |last=Haspelmath |first=Martin |year=2009 |title=Loanwords in the World's Languages: A comparative handbook |page=724 |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |isbn=978-3110218435}}</ref> [[Cebuano language|Cebuano]],<ref name="kuizon">{{cite journal|first=Jose G.|last=Kuizon|year=1964|title=The Sanskrit Loan-words in the Cebuano-Bisayan Language|journal=Asian Folklore Studies|volume=23|issue=1|pages=111–158|url=https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/646|doi=10.2307/1177640|jstor=1177640|access-date=15 March 2018|archive-date=1 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220401020118/https://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/nfile/646|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Lao language|Lao]], [[Khmer language|Khmer]],<ref name="Sak">Sak-{{cite journal |last=Humphry |first=Channy |year=1993 |title=The syntax of nouns and noun phrases in dated pre-Angkorian inscriptions |journal=[[Mon-Khmer Studies]] |volume=22 |pages=1–26 |url=http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf4/sak-humphry1993syntax.pdf |access-date=15 March 2018 |archive-date=11 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011131725/http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf4/sak-humphry1993syntax.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> [[List of loanwords in Thai|Thai]] and its [[Thai alphabet#Sanskrit and Pali|alphabets]], [[List of loanwords in Malay|Malay]] (including [[Malaysian language|Malaysian]] and [[List of loanwords in Indonesian#From Sanskrit|Indonesian]]), [[Javanese language|Javanese]] (old Javanese-English dictionary by [[P.J. Zoetmulder]] contains over 25,500&nbsp;entries), and even in [[List of English words of Sanskrit origin|English]].